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The World's Population Is at Eight Billion This Year

The world's population is hitting eight billion this year, and ten billion and 60 years. Brook unger: The birth rate has been falling pretty dramatically for decades. But there are some countries where the population is shrinking or on the verge of shrinking. Unger: For those countries, that decline and fertility rate is pretty much unambiguously a good thing.

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